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  • Perry Bible Fellowship is not low effort, newspaper quality, nor rage bait.

    Maybe OP is a repost bot or plant or whatever, but PBF is a top-tier internet comic.

  • The Iraq War didn't end when we killed Saddam, that was really only the beginning.

  • Why would they sell? US bonds are welfare for rich people; it's a guaranteed solid ROI that underwrites their riskier investments.

    I think it would take a crash of the global financial system to fundamentally change the logic of the bond market. We haven't seen a crash that devastating since WWII.

  • You're really begging for downvotes with this comment, but I'm curious: how do you see this situation playing out? Do you think a couple steps ahead, or just react?

    My guess is that is going to go like this:

    1. Trump admin tries to install Machado as US puppet government in Venezuela.
    2. Mass popular uprising from the Venezuelan people, significant violence, attempts at deposing or assassinating Machado.
    3. US boots on the ground to prop up Machado regime. -or-
    4. US abandons Venezuela project, leaving devastation and chaos behind.
    5. Inevitable blowback, Americans killed.
  • MBFC

    Do you have a less biased or more credible source for this fact check?

    The Grayzone is worthy of valid criticism, but MBFC does not provide valid criticism, it is rightwing propaganda.

  • Having a disease named after you must be a real pain in the kirk.

  • Facing Worlds has to be one of the most defense-favored maps in CTF history.

    So difficult to to breach into the enemy's fort, only a couple paths home, no cover, high prevalence of snipers.

    In order to score, your team had to have full map control.

  • Because in US politics, we generally have three types of politicians: MAGA, corporate Republicans, and corporate Democrats.

    Mamdani represents a possible fourth way, a way that (hopefully) values workers over capital.

    When he says "billionaires shouldn't exist" he is re-affirming his commitment to this fourth way, and that is a important positive sign.

  • I'll be the pedantic one here and say it: Big Bird is wrong here, this is not wage theft.

    Wage theft is unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, unpaid benefits, tip theft, etc.

    If Big Bird is a Marxist, he should describe this type of theft as surplus labor value.

    Or if Big Bird is a capitalist, he would just call it profit.

  • I think most billionaires are not paying either of those taxes in any significant amounts.

    Most follow the buy borrow die method. Then their children just have to pay estate tax.

    Advanced tax cheats like Bill Gates take it one step further by creating their own charities. You give all your money to the "charity" and give your kids full control of the "charity". This way you can avoid paying estate tax, and you only need to give away a tiny percentage of your wealth to actual charities and PR firms to save face.

  • Coffee is a diuretic, it is beneficial to the kidneys and hard on the stomach.

    A large percentage of cats die from kidney issues, not many die from stomach issues. So coffee is good for cats makes sense imo.

  • The leaders of the New Atheist movement are not heroes; they are certainly imperfect. I agree with all of your criticisms, but you say nothing of the bulk of their work.

    Hitchens' God is Not Great will stand the test of time; his Islamophobia will not.

    Dawkins' The God Delusion is still correct, despite his late-in-life transphobia and "cultural Christianity".

  • How do you know they will not comply with an order to land? No country has tried, despite their obligation to do so under the Rome Statute.

  • Studies in the UK show that there are three classes of 'hard' drugs - alcohol, amphetamines, and opioids.

    All three roughly follow the '10% rule': 10% of people who try these drugs become addicted, and 10% of addicts die from their addiction.

    Meth, heroin, and alcohol each kill about 1% of the people who try them.

    Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis